Students at the Online Campus

Resource of the Month!

Over his long career, Dr. Bert Downs has, at various times, served as a high school teacher and principal, the vice president for Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, a WTB seminar instructor, the executive director of Big Bear Christian Conference Center, the regional director for the Southwest Church Connection, and President of Western Seminary. Dr. Downs continues to serve the students, faculty and staff of Western Seminary as our Chancellor.

Online Help Resources

On occasion, we all need help. The Online Campus continues to create helpful text and video help resources to make your use of our advanced learning systems easier. Whether you need assistance with Integr@te, the Online Learning Centers or even your regional campus' online classrooms, you will likely find what you need at the following link:

Behind the Curtain

Many of you have inquired as to who is responsible for the new delivery and support systems that are helping to make Western's distance learning program available world-wide. The most accurate answer is that it has been a team effort with everyone in our program contributing to making it a success for our students. When it comes to the actual programming, however, we have systems and web developer Blake Kidney to thank for the raft of new learning and management tools you have available to you.

Program director James Stewart says that "Without Blake we would have a lot of good ideas but no practical way to turn them into reality. Blake not only is able to work with our ideas, but he typically makes them even better than we had imagined."

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